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A cat named Mir, a gift from Putin, died in Japan The cause of Mir's death was called illness. Vladimir Putin gave a Siberian cat named Mir in 2012 to the governor of Akita prefecture Norihisa Satake. This was a reciprocal gift: earlier Satake had given Putin an Akita-inu puppy named Dream as a gesture of gratitude for his help in dealing with the aftermath of the 2011 natural disaster.